THE ANiNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATIJEAL HISTOEY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 78. JUNE 1904. 



XLVIII. — Oil Mammals from Northern Angola collected hy 

 Dr. W. J. Ansorge. By Oldfield Thomas. 



During 1903 Ihe well-known collector Dr. W. J. Ansorge, 

 to whom the British Museum is already indebted for series 

 of specimens from British East Africa^ Uganda, and Nigeria, 

 made a collecting-trip to Northern Angola, and obtained 

 about two hundred specimens belonging to forty-six species, 

 and of these a complete set has been acquired for the Museum. 



The mammalogy of Angola has hitiierto remained almost 

 entirely in the hands of the Portuguese, as represented — most 

 admirably — by Prof. Barboza du Bocage in Lisbon and by 

 M. Anchieta and other collectors in the country under con- 

 sideration. Thanks to the enlightened generosity of Prof. 

 Bocage many institutions, and notably the British Museum, 

 had received specimens representing the species discovered in 

 Angola by the Portuguese naturalists, and on these specimens 

 such comments on the Angolan fauna as have been made by 

 Gray, de Winton, myself, and others have been based. 



But these specimens, valuable as they have proved to be, 

 have been all preserved in spirit, and the freshly made skins 

 obtained by Dr. Ansorge are therefore of very great interest 

 for comparison with similarly made specimens from other 

 regions of Africa. 



Complete as have been Prof. Bocage's researches on the 

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